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Leaping as promised into the Middle East peace negotiations, the U.S. tried unsuccessfully to persuade Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a formula for self-rule in the occupied territories...
...side in the BGH battle. They are afraid that the hormone will produce a milk glut and drive down prices. But what dairy farmers large and small fear most is that the BGH controversy will scare off customers. Firms that have staked their reputation on purity -- manufacturers of baby formula and whole-earth companies like Ben & Jerry's and Stonyfield Farm -- have publicly forsworn the use of the hormone. Market surveys bear out industry concern, predicting a 10% decline in national milk consumption should BGH be widely used...
...Wynn's Mirage Resorts Inc.) or because he is the first to think of inserting family fun into betting parlors (Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. did in the mid-'70s, with acrobats and clowns performing above the casino floor). But he is the first to apply to gambling the Disney formula for class-crossing, universal family leisure: cleanliness, measured frivolity and a sense of architectural detail. In the right environment, he argues, everybody and nobody is a gambler. "This place is filled with people like me and you -- none of whom think of themselves as gamblers," he says from his casino...
Mostly from Congress, via an emergency appropriation, White House officials predict. But selling the idea of new foreign aid is the political equivalent of root canal. Luckily, however, an alternative exists, a reallocation of the $15 billion the U.S. sends abroad each year -- funds still distributed according to a formula established when the old world order flourished...
Bailouts of small economies in trouble typically call for painful measures unpopular with those receiving the help. Overhauling a foundering former superpower, a job almost never before attempted, seems to involve much the same formula -- just on a vaster scale. So in working out a package of aid to Russia that could total more than $28 billion, the seven leading industrialized nations -- the Group of Seven -- attached conditions that will make much of the plan unpalatable to Moscow. Nevertheless, said Deputy Prime Minister Boris Fyodorov, Russia welcomes the effort as a "practical, visible approach...